Buttermere nr. Hungerford

Classed in Buck (1950) as one of a group of "Middle Norman circular Fonts, c. 1100-1150" in Wiltshire. Noted in Pevsner & Cherry (1975): "Font. Norman, of tub-shape, with a band of flat zigzag." The Victoria County History (Wiltshire, vol. 16, 1999) notes: "Buttermere church was standing in 1268. [...] The old church [...] was built of flint and had an undivided chancel and nave, a north porch, and a western bell turret of timber. [...] The windows in the north wall were replaced in the 14th century, and the porch was built in the 18th. [it] was wholly rebuilt in 1855-6"; there is no font mentioned in the VCH entry for this church. The present font consists of a round tapering basin decorated with a band of zigzag and a roll moulding below, raised on a plain octagonal pedestal and round moulded -water-catching- lowere base; on a polygonal plinth [NB: the basin may be the only original part, and even the basin may have been re-tooled]. The basin is lead-lined. The wooden cover is flat and round, with metal decoration and ring handle; appears modern; Victorian?